Love Streams Love Streams
Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which opened this year's New York Film Festival on a somber but resonant note, is perhaps the finest western ever to be set in South Boston.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Two Poems by Marianne Moore Two Poems by Marianne Moore
Eight of Marianne Moore's major poems were published in The Nation in the 1940s and '50s, including "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing," "In Distrust of Merits" and "A Carriage F...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
La Japonaise La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities
The hero of The Namesake is an American of Bengali parentage named Gogol Ganguli.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich
Local Color Local Color
A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
The Trials of Haiti The Trials of Haiti
Why has the US government abandoned a country it once sought to liberate?
Oct 9, 2003 / Feature / Tracy Kidder
Meanwhile, in Manila… Meanwhile, in Manila…
Bush's war has internationalized internal conflicts on the archipelago.
Oct 9, 2003 / Feature / Luis H. Francia
Who’s Afraid of Dennis Kucinich? Who’s Afraid of Dennis Kucinich?
The press seems to think Kucinich isn't serious precisely because he's serious.
Oct 9, 2003 / Feature / Matt Taibbi
Let the General Lead the Charge Let the General Lead the Charge
Clark is in a unique position to challenge Bush's foreign policy.
Oct 9, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Let Freedom Roll Let Freedom Roll
Immigrants hit the road for civil rights.
Oct 9, 2003 / Feature / Julie Quiroz-Martínez